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«To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.»

«A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.»

«Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.»

«The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.»

«I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.»

«I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.»

«For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone / when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will / then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought / the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do / can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.»

«There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.»

«You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his»

«I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.»